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Arts, Sciences, and Crafts
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Arts, Sciences, and Crafts
 
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Training in arts, sciences, crafts and useful professions is regarded as important and necessary. Bahá'u'lláh says: --

 
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Knowledge is like unto wings for the being (of man) and is like a ladder for ascending. To acquire knowledge is incumbent upon all, but of those sciences which may profit the people of the earth, and not such sciences as being in mere words and end in mere words. The possessors of sciences and arts have a great right among the people of the world. Indeed, the real treasury of man is his knowledge. Knowledge is the means of honor, prosperity, joy, gladness, happiness and exaltation. -- Tablet of Tajallíyát.